lactic acid

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• IPA^(key): /ˈlæktɪk ˈæsɪd/

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Noun

lactic acid (countable and uncountable, plural lactic acids)

1. (organic chemistry) 2-Hydroxypropanoic acid (CH₃CHOHCO₂H), a syrupy liquid, soluble in water; found in milk, wine and many fruits; used as a food additive and in many industrial applications.
   • 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 15 November 2016:

     It was [Roger] Federer's ability to pull him around the court that put the lactic acid and debilitating weight in those legs and he should not have been allowed the luxury of his trainer's help.

Synonyms

• E270 when used as a preservative
• lactonic acid
• milk acid
• 2-hydroxypropanoic acid

Derived terms

• acetolactic acid
• polylactic acid

Related terms

• lactate

Translations

2-hydroxy-propanoic acid (CH₃.CHOH.CO₂H)

Armenian: կաթնաթթու (hy) (katʻnatʻtʻu) Asturian: ácidu láctico m Basque: azido laktiko Belarusian: малочная кіслата f (malóčnaja kislata) Bulgarian: млечна киселина f (mlečna kiselina) Catalan: àcid làctic m Chinese: Mandarin: 乳酸 (zh) (rǔsuān) Czech: kyselina mléčná f Danish: mælkesyre c Dutch: melkzuur (nl) n Esperanto: laktacido, lakta acido, laktata acido Estonian: piimhape Faroese: mjólkarsýra f Finnish: maitohappo (fi) French: acide lactique (fr) m Galician: ácido láctico (gl) m Georgian: რძემჟავა (rʒemžava) German: Milchsäure (de) f Greek: γαλακτικό οξύ n (galaktikó oxý) Hungarian: tejsav (hu) Icelandic: mjólkursýra f Indonesian: asam laktat (id) Irish: aigéad lachtach m Italian: acido lattico (it) m Japanese: 乳酸 (ja) (にゅうさん, nyūsan) Kazakh: сүт қышқылы (süt qyşqyly) Korean: 락트산 (rakteusan) Latin: acidum lacticum n Latvian: pienskābe (lv) f Lithuanian: pieno rūgštis f Luxembourgish: Mëllechsaier f Macedonian: млечна киселина f (mlečna kiselina) Malay: asid laktik Maori: waikawa waiū Norwegian: Bokmål: melkesyre m or f, mjølkesyre m or f Nynorsk: mjølkesyre f Persian: اسید لاکتیک Polish: kwas mlekowy (pl) m Portuguese: ácido lático m Russian: моло́чная кислота́ (ru) f (molóčnaja kislotá) Serbo-Croatian: mliječna kiselina f Slovak: kyselina mliečna f Slovene: mlečna kislina f Spanish: ácido láctico m Swedish: mjölksyra (sv) c Thai: กรดแล็กติก, กรดน้ำนม Turkish: laktik asit (tr) Ukrainian: моло́чна кислота́ f (molóčna kyslotá) Uzbek: sut kislota